#ChristianPrivilege is trending because of this disgustingly bigoted article. playboy.com/read/the-gospe… In it, @C_Stroop claims that anyone who disagrees with her liberal stances is immoral. Specifically, if you don't value helping illegals over following immigration law. /1
@C_Stroop The thing is, people support immigration restrictions for various reasons, not because of some fundamentally racist strain in American Christianity. We welcome immigrants, but legal limits are important for the health of a pluralistic republic. /2
@C_Stroop The real problem with the article has nothing to do with her oversimplification of the immigration debate. It has to do with her lies about Christianity. Here's what she says about Christianity and Jesus: /3
@C_Stroop She says Christianity is fundamentally oppressive, that Jesus seems similar to a guy who led his followers into mass suicide, and that conservative Christianity is fundamentally racist. /4
@C_Stroop She presents an oversimplistic view of history — "EUROPEAN COLONIALISM IS EVIL" — that overlooks how Christianity ended abortion, created the first orphanages and hospitals, and cared for the sick when no one else would in Ancient Rome and onward. /5
@C_Stroop Her view also overlooks how Christianity encouraged science pjmedia.com/faith/2015/11/… and humility, making the lives of billions better. /6
@C_Stroop Yes, of course many Christians in history have committed evil acts, but they have also done great good — Hernan De Soto condemned the Spanish atrocities against Native Americans and laid the groundwork for international law. /7
@C_Stroop As for racism, Christianity is spreading fastest in Subsaharan Africa and South America. Some Christians twisted the Bible to defend slavery (yes twisted — read Philemon), but Christians also led the abolitionist movement. /8
@C_Stroop Fights for religious freedom have nothing to do with racism or #ChristianPrivilege, but rather in allowing people to live and let live in the confusing legal world after Obergefell, and Justice Kennedy supported such things IN THAT DECISION. /9
@C_Stroop So, when someone demonizes a faith, concocts a conspiracy theory about racism within it, advocates for #EmptyThePews, she demonstrates that concerns about #ChristianPrivilege are overblown. Yes, conservative Christians have holidays off. But we're routinely demonized as well. /10
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The Girl Scouts expelled NJ mom Alexandra Bougher, a @Moms4Liberty chapter chair, after she refused to promote LGBTQ "Pride" to her troop.
She also got swatted after she attacked a church's decision to raise an LGBTQ flag.
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Bougher's daughter had been in Girl Scouts since Kindergarten, but the mom started noticing a very liberal bias in Girl Scouts amid the BLM riots of 2020.
She says she remembers troops going to BLM protests. That's plausible. Here's GSUSA's statement on BLM
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In June, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey posted an LGBTQ graphic. Bougher responded by saying, "WE DO NOT talk about this with our troop."
Lt. Gov. @winwithwinsome spoke at Stone Bridge High School, slamming Loudoun County Public Schools for punishing 3 boys who complained about a girl in the locker room.😲
One boy's dad spoke, and so did the lawyer representing him.
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First, @TFFVA Prez Victoria Cobb explained what happened.
Loudoun County punished three boys after they saw a girl in their locker room. This at the same school where a boy sexually assaulted a girl in the girls' room four years ago.
@DNIGabbard and @FBIDirectorKash released more declassified info on Russiagate and the Intelligence Community's efforts to strangle the Clinton Foundation probe in its crib.
Here are 3 major docs you should know about.
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First, then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers sent a Dec. 2016 email to then-DNI James Clapper on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia.
Rogers suggested his team had neither "sufficient access" nor "sufficient time" to prepare the document.
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Crucially, Rogers added, “I know that you agree that this is something we need to be 100% comfortable with before we present it to the President—we have one chance to get this right, and it is critical that we do so.”👀
The Family Research Council @FRCdc keeps a tally, and the 415 churches that got attacked last year didn't even represent the worst year for churches in America😲
Here's more from the report.
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As @CatholicVote has recorded, attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers skyrocketed after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The record high, according to FRC's data, was 2023 with 485 attacks on churches.
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The report counted acts of vandalism, arson attempts, gun-related threats, and bomb threats.
In August, four churches in southern Ohio caught fire, and authorities suspected one person may have set all four fires.🔥